Page 45 of Simply Irresistible
“Tyler Manhattan and Hannah Bronx…we were named after them.”
I laughed out loud and shoved his arm. “That’s not even funny.”
“Charles Randolph Scott and Annalise Edith Murray Scott.”
“Annalise is pretty. Is Edith a family name?”
“Yeah…her grandmother.”
“It is rather grandmotherly.”
Tyler laughed. “Yeah, it is. What about your parents?”
“Katarina Melody Castellanos-”
“I knew a Castellanos. His name was Ed.”
“I don’t have a cousin Ed.”
Tyler shrugged. “What about your dad?”
“Gregory Adrian Katsaros.”
“That doesn’t sound very Greek.”
“Don’t tell him that.”
He chuckled. “We came from good stock, huh?
“I think so.”
“Night, Spice.”
“Good night, Ty.”
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Tyler
“You really like the desserts?” I asked Melanie. I was thinking about drafting a dessert only column as part of the series, but I wanted to make sure I had enough grilled dessert recipes to share.
“Yeah, they were great. You can probably even do a dessert pizza, right?”
“Ah, I love the way you think!” I leaned over and kissed her cheek. We were sitting on my bed. She was sketching some designs on her iPad and I was writing up some dessert recipes on my laptop. She looked so cute in her little dark-framed glasses.
I groaned. Planning this column was driving me crazy.
“What’s the matter?” Mel asked, not moving her eyes away from her tablet.
“I just don’t know if I should present it as a series or an ongoing column.”
She set her tablet aside and gave me her full attention. “Well, if you present it to the magazine—any magazine—you’re going to want it to be an ongoing opportunity, right? I mean you aren’t going to want them to buy a series off of you for X amount of dollars and leave it at that? You’re going to want some steady income.”
“Yeah, I’d rather it not be a one and done thing.”
“Then present it as an ongoing column. Each month you feature a new technique or course or recipe or whatever. Or you can feature different courses that all include the same technique? You can present the same recipe cooked across several grill types.”
“That’s a lot to think about.”
